Ryanair passenger had pipe bomb in his hand luggage as he tried to make it on to Italian flight

A man caught trying to smuggle a pipe bomb on to a passenger jet was free to fly again days later after police failed to realise his device was viable, a court heard.
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, tried to board a Ryanair flight to Bergamo, Italy, on January 30 but security at Manchester Airport found a device made from batteries, tape, a marker pen and pins in the lining of his small case.
Prosecutor Jonathan Sandiford said: “The only reason he would have for trying to get that device on to the aeroplane was to detonate it within the Boeing 737.”
When the bomb was swabbed there was no trace of... read more

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Nadeem Muhammad was still allowed to catch a flight despite carrying a viable pipe bomb hidden inside a pen, Manchester Crown Court heard.
The prosecution alleges the device was brought on board with the intention of detonating it “within the...